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WSU softball gets 3 wins
to start season
CALENDAR 2
EDITORIAL 3
FEATURES 4
SPORTS 6
HELP WANTED 7
VOL 84 ISSUE 65
"EDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12,2014
WWW.WSUSIGNP0ST.COM
OUTreach increases efforts to
help homeless youth of Utah
BYSKYLERPYLE
news editor | The Signpost
@SkylerPyle
Marian Edmonds Allen, executive director
for the OUTreach Resource Center, has said
"enough is enough" with
the homeless youth
problem facing Utah.
In a recent letter to
the editor sent to the
three major newspaper
organizations in Utah,
she requested church
leaders and members
help with the crisis.
"In the past five days,
there has been a huge
increase in newly homeless youth asking our
center for help, directly or through others,"
wrote Allen in the letter. "The youngest is 15
years old . . . There is
help to keep families together, regardless, and
perhaps ESPECIALLY
because of faith."
Rachel Peterson, epidemiologist at Utah
State University and national expert for youth
homelessness, said this
is a huge problem. From
U reach
RESOURCE CENTER
her estimates, more
than 5,000 youth a year
experience homelessness at some point, with
40 percent being LGBT.
"That's huge — I
"...specifically having
a large number of LGBT
youth not living with
their families anymore,
that's just very detrimental to the child."
KARLEE BEREZAY
WSU LGBT advocate
mean, homeless youth
at any level is a major social problem that
needs to be fixed," said
Karlee Berezay, LGBT
advocate at Weber State
University, "but spe-
SOURCE: MARIAN EDMONDS ALLEN
cifically having a large
number of LGBT youth
not living with their
families anymore, that's
just very detrimental to
the child."
Peterson, also the director for the OUTreach
Recourse Center in Logan, said the problem
is more hidden in rural
areas such as Logan, but
she still sees an issue
with youth being asked
to leave their homes
for various reasons,
and sexual orientation
and gender identity are
some of the major ones.
"I definitely share
Marian's concern and
alarm with the numbers
we are seeing and in the
patterns we are seeing,
because I think it's getting worse rather than
better right now," Peterson said. "In Utah overall, we're doing great
things to end homelessness, but among youth,
and particularly queer
youth, we're not doing
that."
Even with all the
strides the LGBT movement has made recently,
Allen said youth still feel
they have to be careful
about what they say and
do because of the backlash they may get from
people who are perhaps
unhappy with the recent
victories.
"They (opposers of
the LGBT movement)
are more apt to be bullying, and we can see
the LGBT youth are really the ones suffering,"
Allen said.
Berezay said Allen
is one of her personal
heroes for all her hard
work and effort.
Because of Allen, the
WSU Gay-Straight Alliance will be building
hygiene kits to give to
homeless youth instead
of the usual food drive it
does each year.
"We decided to do
See OUTREACH page 5
Talk of the Town meeting
discusses parking issues
BY RAYCHEL JOHNSON
editor-in-chief | The Signpost
@raychelNEWS
The Ogden City
Council's weekly meeting had a change of venue Tuesday. Weber State
University President
Charles Wight sat alongside Ogden Mayor Mike
Caldwell and student
senate president Brady
Harris to discuss transportation and parking
issues during the first
Talk of the Town meeting of 2014.
Unlike typical city
council meetings, which
are held Tuesday evenings at the Ogden Municipal Building, the
council teamed up with
the WSU American Democracy Project's Powered by Pizza event and
provided free lunch for
students and faculty in
attendance.
Members from the
Ogden City Council,
Ogden administrative
teams, Utah Transit Authority, the Utah Department of Transportation and WSU answered
students' questions and
comments about the issue of parking on campus and downtown.
"Parking and transit
PHOTO BY RAYCHEL JOHNSON | THE SIGNPOST
Weber State University President Charles Wight (center) addresses the crowd
during the first Talk of the Town meeting sponsored by WSU and Ogden City.
can be a problem and a
challenge at Weber State
University, especially for
students," Wight said.
"In a university that has
more than 25,000 students, most of whom are
commuters, that's going
to be the case."
He asked what improvements could be
made to mass transit
and infrastructure to
improve the issue but
remain compatible with
WSU's goal of becoming
carbon-neutral by 2050
and being a sustainable
campus.
"We have a long way
to go, and finding ways
to get students and staff
and faculty to and from
campus on far fewer
automobiles is going to
be a big part of the ultimate solution to this
challenge," Wight said.
Danielle Johnson, a
WSU student, brought
up the topic of a parking
structure on campus,
and asked Wight what
the pros and cons of a
garage would be.
"As the university gets
bigger, the problem is
only going to get worse,"
said Johnson, noting the
cost would be phenomenal.
Wight said that although this solution
might work in an urban
setting, the solution to
WSU's problem is more
complex than "slapping
down more pavement"
and building expensive
See PARKING page 5
Author reviews Black
Panther Party history
at Lindquist Center
PHOTO BY TONY POST | THE SIGNPOST
Author Waldo Martin discusses the Black Panther
Party in the Lindquist Alumni Center on Monday.
BY MICHAEL ANDERSON
news reporter | The Signpost
@alonewithAS
On Monday evening,
professor and author
Waldo Martin discussed
misconceptions about
the Black Panther Party
at the Lindquist Alumni
Center.
Martin, a professor of
history at the University
of California, Berkeley,
highlighted his book
"Black Against Empire:
The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party," which he
started writing in 2004
with co-author Joshua
Bloom.
The Weber State University History Department hosted the event
as part of a series celebrating Black History
Month.
"I think it's really important that students
have an opportunity to
reflect on areas of American history that are often overlooked," said
Brandon Little, WSU
history professor.
Martin said the book
grew out of multiple research projects he and
Bloom were working on
when they discussed
what an actual Black
Panther Party book
would look like.
The Black Panther
Party developed during
the Black Liberation
Movement in 1966-82,
its main goal being to
achieve political and
social equality for black
people throughout the
U.S.
Huey Newton founded the movement, which
was known for socialist
ideas and threats of violence. It is said the Panthers would often show
up to public protests
carrying loaded shotguns.
Martin spoke about
this "armed self-defense,"
which was a major
theme of the party.
Dating back to recon-
stitution in the South,
society had issues with
blacks carrying guns.
1th in kit's really important that students
have the opportunity
to reflect on areas of
American history that
are often overlooked."
BRANDON LITTLE
WSU history professor
He pointed out that the
only time the National
Rifle Association supported a restriction on
open-carry laws in California was during the
time of these protests.
"More police and government officials killed
Panthers than Panthers
killed police, that's just
a fact," Martin said.
FBI director J. Edgar
Hoover declared the
Black Panthers a great
threat to American society and began his
COINTELPRO program
See HISTORY page 5

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WSU softball gets 3 wins
to start season
CALENDAR 2
EDITORIAL 3
FEATURES 4
SPORTS 6
HELP WANTED 7
VOL 84 ISSUE 65
"EDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12,2014
WWW.WSUSIGNP0ST.COM
OUTreach increases efforts to
help homeless youth of Utah
BYSKYLERPYLE
news editor | The Signpost
@SkylerPyle
Marian Edmonds Allen, executive director
for the OUTreach Resource Center, has said
"enough is enough" with
the homeless youth
problem facing Utah.
In a recent letter to
the editor sent to the
three major newspaper
organizations in Utah,
she requested church
leaders and members
help with the crisis.
"In the past five days,
there has been a huge
increase in newly homeless youth asking our
center for help, directly or through others,"
wrote Allen in the letter. "The youngest is 15
years old . . . There is
help to keep families together, regardless, and
perhaps ESPECIALLY
because of faith."
Rachel Peterson, epidemiologist at Utah
State University and national expert for youth
homelessness, said this
is a huge problem. From
U reach
RESOURCE CENTER
her estimates, more
than 5,000 youth a year
experience homelessness at some point, with
40 percent being LGBT.
"That's huge — I
"...specifically having
a large number of LGBT
youth not living with
their families anymore,
that's just very detrimental to the child."
KARLEE BEREZAY
WSU LGBT advocate
mean, homeless youth
at any level is a major social problem that
needs to be fixed," said
Karlee Berezay, LGBT
advocate at Weber State
University, "but spe-
SOURCE: MARIAN EDMONDS ALLEN
cifically having a large
number of LGBT youth
not living with their
families anymore, that's
just very detrimental to
the child."
Peterson, also the director for the OUTreach
Recourse Center in Logan, said the problem
is more hidden in rural
areas such as Logan, but
she still sees an issue
with youth being asked
to leave their homes
for various reasons,
and sexual orientation
and gender identity are
some of the major ones.
"I definitely share
Marian's concern and
alarm with the numbers
we are seeing and in the
patterns we are seeing,
because I think it's getting worse rather than
better right now," Peterson said. "In Utah overall, we're doing great
things to end homelessness, but among youth,
and particularly queer
youth, we're not doing
that."
Even with all the
strides the LGBT movement has made recently,
Allen said youth still feel
they have to be careful
about what they say and
do because of the backlash they may get from
people who are perhaps
unhappy with the recent
victories.
"They (opposers of
the LGBT movement)
are more apt to be bullying, and we can see
the LGBT youth are really the ones suffering,"
Allen said.
Berezay said Allen
is one of her personal
heroes for all her hard
work and effort.
Because of Allen, the
WSU Gay-Straight Alliance will be building
hygiene kits to give to
homeless youth instead
of the usual food drive it
does each year.
"We decided to do
See OUTREACH page 5
Talk of the Town meeting
discusses parking issues
BY RAYCHEL JOHNSON
editor-in-chief | The Signpost
@raychelNEWS
The Ogden City
Council's weekly meeting had a change of venue Tuesday. Weber State
University President
Charles Wight sat alongside Ogden Mayor Mike
Caldwell and student
senate president Brady
Harris to discuss transportation and parking
issues during the first
Talk of the Town meeting of 2014.
Unlike typical city
council meetings, which
are held Tuesday evenings at the Ogden Municipal Building, the
council teamed up with
the WSU American Democracy Project's Powered by Pizza event and
provided free lunch for
students and faculty in
attendance.
Members from the
Ogden City Council,
Ogden administrative
teams, Utah Transit Authority, the Utah Department of Transportation and WSU answered
students' questions and
comments about the issue of parking on campus and downtown.
"Parking and transit
PHOTO BY RAYCHEL JOHNSON | THE SIGNPOST
Weber State University President Charles Wight (center) addresses the crowd
during the first Talk of the Town meeting sponsored by WSU and Ogden City.
can be a problem and a
challenge at Weber State
University, especially for
students," Wight said.
"In a university that has
more than 25,000 students, most of whom are
commuters, that's going
to be the case."
He asked what improvements could be
made to mass transit
and infrastructure to
improve the issue but
remain compatible with
WSU's goal of becoming
carbon-neutral by 2050
and being a sustainable
campus.
"We have a long way
to go, and finding ways
to get students and staff
and faculty to and from
campus on far fewer
automobiles is going to
be a big part of the ultimate solution to this
challenge," Wight said.
Danielle Johnson, a
WSU student, brought
up the topic of a parking
structure on campus,
and asked Wight what
the pros and cons of a
garage would be.
"As the university gets
bigger, the problem is
only going to get worse,"
said Johnson, noting the
cost would be phenomenal.
Wight said that although this solution
might work in an urban
setting, the solution to
WSU's problem is more
complex than "slapping
down more pavement"
and building expensive
See PARKING page 5
Author reviews Black
Panther Party history
at Lindquist Center
PHOTO BY TONY POST | THE SIGNPOST
Author Waldo Martin discusses the Black Panther
Party in the Lindquist Alumni Center on Monday.
BY MICHAEL ANDERSON
news reporter | The Signpost
@alonewithAS
On Monday evening,
professor and author
Waldo Martin discussed
misconceptions about
the Black Panther Party
at the Lindquist Alumni
Center.
Martin, a professor of
history at the University
of California, Berkeley,
highlighted his book
"Black Against Empire:
The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party," which he
started writing in 2004
with co-author Joshua
Bloom.
The Weber State University History Department hosted the event
as part of a series celebrating Black History
Month.
"I think it's really important that students
have an opportunity to
reflect on areas of American history that are often overlooked," said
Brandon Little, WSU
history professor.
Martin said the book
grew out of multiple research projects he and
Bloom were working on
when they discussed
what an actual Black
Panther Party book
would look like.
The Black Panther
Party developed during
the Black Liberation
Movement in 1966-82,
its main goal being to
achieve political and
social equality for black
people throughout the
U.S.
Huey Newton founded the movement, which
was known for socialist
ideas and threats of violence. It is said the Panthers would often show
up to public protests
carrying loaded shotguns.
Martin spoke about
this "armed self-defense,"
which was a major
theme of the party.
Dating back to recon-
stitution in the South,
society had issues with
blacks carrying guns.
1th in kit's really important that students
have the opportunity
to reflect on areas of
American history that
are often overlooked."
BRANDON LITTLE
WSU history professor
He pointed out that the
only time the National
Rifle Association supported a restriction on
open-carry laws in California was during the
time of these protests.
"More police and government officials killed
Panthers than Panthers
killed police, that's just
a fact," Martin said.
FBI director J. Edgar
Hoover declared the
Black Panthers a great
threat to American society and began his
COINTELPRO program
See HISTORY page 5